~Sun.~--The glorious sun stays in his course, and plays the alchemist,
turning with the splendor of his precious eyes the meagre, cloddy earth
to glittering gold.--_Shakespeare._
The downward sun looks out effulgent from amid the flash of broken
clouds.--_Thomson._
~Sunday.~--If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the
last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have
been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.--_Macaulay._
Oh, what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly
business like the divine path of the Israelites through Jordan! There is
nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious
than in keeping the Sabbath-day holy. I can truly declare that to me the
Sabbath has been invaluable.--_W. Wilberforce._
~Superstition.~--A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional
superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a
camel.--_George Eliot._
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that
worship.--_Seneca._
Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly called
superstition.--_Jeremy Taylor._
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any
day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his
understanding.--_Watts._
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are
capable.--_Joubert._
It is of such stuff that superstitions are commonly made; an intense
feeling about ourselves which makes the evening star shine at us with a
threat, and the blessing of a beggar encourage us. And superstitions
carry consequences which often verify their hope or their
foreboding.--_George Eliot._
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the
record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a
man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his
imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject
them.--_Holmes._
~Surety.~--He who is surety is never sure. Take advice, and never be
security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the words
of the wise man. "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it;
and he that hateth suretyship is sure."--_Spurgeon._
~Surfeit.~--They are sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve
with nothing.--_Shakespeare._